7.3/10152 votesLoading...#1 - Marx
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2016
Bettany begins her journey in the city of Trier on the banks of the Mosel in Germany. It was here on the 5 May 1818 that Karl Marx, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century was born.
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7.6/10121 votesLoading...#2 - Freud
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/30/2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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8.1/10177 votesLoading...#3 - Nietzsche
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
Worst Episodes Summary
"Marx" is the worst rated episode of "Genius of the Modern World". It scored 7.3/10 based on 152 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/16/2016. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Freud".